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The comedian received unwelcome attention this week after he was exposed by the Times as being a member of an aggressive tax avoidance scheme based in Jersey. Carr was reported as being one of the main beneficiaries of the legal K2 scheme by sheltering £3.3m a year from the taxman. Carr has since apologised for his “terrible error of judgement” after prime minister David Cameron called the scheme “not morally right”. Photo credit: Getty Images

Jimmy Carr was at the centre of a debate over offshore tax centres, Vince Cable announced his proposals on executive pay, and Ben Benanke's Fed resumed Operation Twist

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